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I would personally like it much more if "Goofs" were changed to "Interesting oversights" and/or "trivial oversights" as many of the so called "goofs" aren't really goofs at all. Many require freeze frame, and others would be seen more as interesting than "goofs". Perhaps a new category "debunking the Goof" in which some of the more irrelevant or inaccurate "Goofs" can be rationalized or shown as not being goofs at all. 

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Maurice: 

Perhaps a new category "debunking the Goof" in which some of the more irrelevant or inaccurate "Goofs" can be rationalized or shown as not being goofs at all. 

We already have this category in the Goofs section, under the heading "Incorrectly regarded as goofs". See https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/goofs/GFDUF27RBTQGS8UZ#categories :

Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Common misconceptions put right.

Things that have been widely misinterpreted as goofs in the past. Items that have been recently corrected might sometimes get the label for a short while before they are deleted, to save people the trouble of resubmitting them.

Note that if you see a goof listed by IMDb which is not actually an error, you can submit a deletion for it altogether; you don't have to change it to "Incorrectly regarded as goofs". For example, I recently submitted a deletion of the following goof:

The King's Speech (2010)

Factual Mistake: At Wallis Simpson's party scene which takes place during David's short reign as king in 1936, David and Bertie go down to the cellar where Bertie confronts David asking "where is the Russian czar?" Russia had no czar after Nicholas II in 1918.

I explained the deletion as follows:

Not a goof. The dialogue actually has Bertie say to David, "'Kinging' is a precarious business these days. Where's the Russian czar? Where's cousin Wilhelm?" It was a rhetorical question, not a request for the Russian czar's location. Bertie is referring to the fact that the Russian czar and Kaiser Wilhelm II both lost their thrones -- which David would also wind up doing, although under very different circumstances.